Arguing that video production and digital storytelling constitute a "valuable, transformative tool for learners in a range of curriculum and discipline contexts" (p. 184), Kearney suggests that platforms for disseminating student videos "need careful consideration to maximise peer learning opportunities" (p. 182).
At its most effective, it would be transformative for both the learner and the society.
Empow Learning: Transformative experiences that empower young learners to create and build using technology, to discover their superpowers, and to make lasting contributions to their own futures and to the world around them.
Transformative learning occurs when a learner - of any age - is guided to reflect upon how their experiences are shaped by social context.
While panellists and members of the audience agreed that new technology offered huge challenges – not least in working out how to use it without losing the personal contact so valued by learners – it was also potentially transformative.
Mezirow's transformative learning theory described lifelong learning in terms of learners' transforming frames of reference, in which reflection is the driving force [ 21].
Learning is a continuous and transformative process; 10, 11 however, a particular difference among learners is their perceived need to acquire additional competencies and the strategy used to acquire them.
Education is about changing the learner, hence the use of the term transformative.
Transformative learning attempts to purposively and rationally question and deconstruct the learner's prior assumptions, values, beliefs, feelings, and biases in the interest of personal and intellectual growth of the learner (Cranton 1994).
Mezirow (1997) describes transformative learning as a process leading to radical change in the learner's frame of reference.
